Jonathan James

Bio

In 2016, Jonathan was cast in the lead role of Ben Smart in
the TVONE Sunday Night Theatre film - Doubt: The Scott Watson Case.
He starred in Fencepost Production’s post-apocalyptic short This is DAY
Z, and played a supporting role in the re-imagining of cult kiwi
classic Pork Pie, alongside TV film Catching the Black
Widow. In 2017, he was cast as core character Caleb Saunders in TV2’s Wilde
Ride, alongside starring in a nationwide Vodafone commercial. In mid 2018,
after graduating from prestigious drama school ‘The Actors Program’,
Jonathan guest starred as Connor Stuart in Shortland Street.

He played the role of Sky in
Mamma Mia, and went on to appear as Jasperino in The
Changeling (dir. by Michael Hurst), which toured venues around
Auckland. Later that year Jonathan was contracted to play Danny Zuko in Grease: The
Arena Spectacular.